The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) are set to re­ceive this coun­try’s sec­ond-high­est ho­n­our, the Cha­co­nia Medal gold, at to­day’s an­nu­al Na­tion­al Awards Cer­e­mo­ny at Pres­i­dent’s House.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Javelin World Cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott and TKR stand-outs, cap­tain Nicholas Pooran and Ke­iron Pol­lard, have been named na­tion­al sport am­bas­sadors, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced at a re­cep­tion for the ath­letes at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Un­der the Na­tion­al Re­wards and In­cen­tives Pol­i­cy frame­work im­ple­ment­ed in 2018, both Wal­cott and 400m World Cham­pi­onships sil­ver medal­list Jereem “The Dream” Richards are al­so en­ti­tled to a to­tal of $750,000: $500,000 for World Cham­pi­onships gold and $250,000 for sil­ver. The Prime Min­is­ter an­nounced they would re­ceive their due.